Jessie

[sea hag @air_rocka]

I can’t believe millennials witnessed an entire historical event and it wasn’t a tragedy 🥹 #ArtemisII

[♡⃝ @wine_x13]

There’s a mom at our school drop-off. Messy bun, always three minutes late, kids usually eating dry cereal out of a Ziploc. The "Pinterest moms" always whispered about her. I honestly felt a little bad for her.

Then one day at the playground, my neurodivergent son had a massive, violent sensory meltdown. I’m sitting in the dirt, crying, totally paralyzed.

The "perfect" moms just stared and pulled their kids away.
Suddenly, she’s there. The messy mom.

She drops her giant bag, sits right in the dirt next to us, pulls a heavy sensory toy out of her purse, and calmly shields my son from the crowd. No panic. No judgment. He regulated in three minutes. I was speechless.

We had coffee after. She told me her house is a disaster and she has severe ADHD, but she knows exactly what a nervous system collapse looks like.

I asked her how she deals with the judgmental stares from the other moms.

She took a sip of her cold coffee and said: "Perfect moms know how to bake organic muffins. Chaotic moms know how to survive the trenches."

Every time I see her running late now, I just smile. Girls, be like the messy mom. Stop apologizing for your chaos.

[Kurt Supe, CPA & Retirement Planner @KurtSupeCPA]

Couple comes in for their annual review.

$2.8 million. Well invested. Solid Pension. Completely on track.

I ask the question I ask everyone.

"How is your daughter doing?"

Mom's face changed first.

Their daughter is 39. Hasn't asked for anything. Never complained.

But she's been in the same apartment for six years.

Daycare alone is $1,800 a month. Down payment feels impossible.

Dad said "we always figured she'd get it eventually."

I pulled up a simple chart.

Statistically they live to 88. She inherits at 56. Maybe 60.

At 60 her own retirement is eight years away.

The money that could change everything at 39 arrives when her finish line is already close.

Neither of them had ever seen it framed that way.

The annual gift exclusion is $19,000 per parent per child.

They can move $38,000 a year to her. No gift tax. No estate implications.

Over ten years that's $380,000 transferred while they're healthy enough to watch it matter.

Dad looked at his wife.

"Why are we waiting?"

Most families leave everything at death because nobody showed them the math of giving it while they're alive.

[Jared Rosner @jaredrosnerd]

The hottest summer I ever spent was a winter in San Francisco

[Jordan Zirm @JordanZirm]

I am always fascinated by people who place the burden of survival on everyday civilians, rather than the armed officers pulling up to their communities unannounced in unmarked vehicles and masks

[Josh Hawley @HawleyMO]

If Americans can be targeted by their own government without accountability, then we won’t have a Constitution or a country

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

I’m not easily shook these days but the number of people who think the appropriate punishment for not following a masked federal agent’s orders is assassination is rather shocking

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
—George Orwell, 1984

[Jessie @smalljr910]

@mysteriouskat @JeninYounesEsq Yes but they shot her. Police officers can’t even shoot someone in that scenario how are you justifying her being murdered. Who cares if they can stop her they cannot murder people

[SF Earthquakes @QuakesSF]

2.9 magnitude #earthquake. 1 mi from #Piedmont, CA, United States https://t.co/0OSQYrwnSN

[Jessie @smalljr910]

That was definitely an earthquake big boom in Oakland

[Jessie @smalljr910]

@YayAreaNews Yes! Knocked stuff off my wall in Oakland

[Jessie @smalljr910]

@LastQuake Knocked over stuff in Oakland

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

I stopped adding creamer
to my coffee for a week
and here’s what I learned.

I don’t actually like coffee.
I like creamer.

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

My wife stopped asking me to help with Christmas.

I didn't notice.

"Don't stress," I'd tell her. "It'll all come together."

She'd nod. Keep moving.

One night I found her at the kitchen table.

2 AM.

Wrapping gifts I didn't know we had.

For people I forgot existed.

"When did you buy all this?"

She didn't look up.

"It doesn't just come together."

That's when it hit me.

I was the one saying don't stress.

She was the one making Christmas happen.

I wasn't helping.

I was watching.

Your wife isn't stressed about Christmas.

She IS Christmas.

And you're just showing up.

[Jessie @smalljr910]

@BellaBaddie__ Scandal

[Jessie @smalljr910]

@Matt_Pinner You

[Jessie @smalljr910]

@mtgreenee We have a shortage of doctors and medical professionals focus more on black rock than H1B visas when enough Americans are educated h1bs take care of themselves

[Jessie @smalljr910]

@EricLDaugh Does he forget Obamacare existed the first time he was president? All distraction

[Jessie @smalljr910]

@LauraLoomer You are quite possibly the worst human being on the planet for this statement.